Posts Tagged ‘suicide’
Economic Distress Prompts Suicide Call Increase
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The federal government through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, part of HHS) is funding an additional $1 million for 20 suicide prevention crisis centers dealing with significantly more calls from people in economic distress (about 25% of the 57,000 calls in July). The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which routes calls to about 140 crisis centers across the country, is
1-800-273-TALK / 1-800-273-8255
Tags: economic crisis, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, SAMHSA, suicide
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Guest blog: Another USPS Workplace Tragedy
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
By Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D. author of Beyond Going Postal
On the morning of June 2, 2009, a city letter carrier went to work and reportedly fatally shot himself in the head in the locker room at a postal facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. The Gaston Gazette online news report stated that the “Gastonia Police are investigating an apparent suicide this morning at the post office. . . . One of the employees is inside dead from a gunshot wound.” (more…)
Tags: arbitration, Fields, going postal, Musacco, NALC, suicide, USPS, violence policy, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Health Care, Social Justice | 112 Comments »
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